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The Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas has announced its early spring 2017 programming schedule, including the popular annual Presidential Lecture Series and the monthly Fort Leavenworth Series.

The Dole Institute of Politics has announced the creation of a new special exhibition about these leaders, opening in May 2017. “The League of Wives: Vietnam’s POW/MIA Allies & Advocates” will tell the story of the military wives who founded the organization, which would later become the National League of POW/MIA Families…

Campaign managers, communications directors and pollsters who had a front-row seat to the showdown between Trump and Clinton gathered at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas for a second day of discussion about a 2016 campaign that produced one of the more shocking outcomes in modern U.S. election history…

The now-familiar sights and sounds of the 2016 presidential election were on full display Friday at the Dole Institute of Politics in the second day of a conference reviewing the results of the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton…

At a post-election conference held at the Dole Institute of Politics on the University of Kansas campus, people from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s campaign said that in 2016, fundraising and campaign advertising did not have the same effect that they’ve had in the past, and even the public’s reaction to controversies that arose during the campaign were not what they had expected…

A group of journalists, academics and political leaders from around the state will explore the 2016 election results at the Kansas Elections Conference, hosted by the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas….